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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Augustus Summerfield Merrimon Papers, #504, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. Jesse L. Cunninggum of Nashville, Tenn., prior to 1940 and July 1950.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

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• Asheville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Asheville Male Academy (Asheville, N.C.)
• Law--Study and teaching--History.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Merrimon, Augustus Summerfield, 1830-1892.
• Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894.

Augustus Summerfield Merrimon (1830-1892) was a United States Senator, 1874-1879, and chief justice, 1889-1892, of North Carolina.

The collection includes diaries, 1850-1851 and 1853, while Merrimon was a student as the Asheville Male Academy and while studying law at Asheville, N.C., including comments on fellow law student Zebulon Baird Vance; record of judgements, 1859-1863, in cases in which Merrimon was attorney; and docket of cases, 1868, he argued before the North Carolina Supreme Court. There are also a few speeches, letters, and other items, 1850-1876.